The Guyana Karate College in keeping with their desire to do something nice each year to make the children of Guyana feel specially recognized, spent a morning with the youths of the Joshua House Children Centre in Georgetown.
Vice President and Senior Instructor of the GKC Shihan Jeffrey Wong said that while most will celebrate Christmas and ringing in the New Year with family, close friends and loved ones, they wanted the children of this orphanage to feel loved and appreciated too.
The GKC started the day off for the children with a breakfast, then treated them to a karate demonstration before interacting and taking photographs with them
The Karatekas of the Guyana Karate College who are always proud to support philanthropic causes, related how they found the experience with the children to be very fulfilling particularly when they got to see the smiling faces of these young residents and got to talk with them.
Peter Campayne who chairs the Guyana Karate College sub-committee that has responsibility social development indicated that whilst it is the intention of the College in 2018 to continue with a program of providing gifts and treats that can bring joy to the young children of Joshua House and other orphanages and homes, they believe that giving a child an education will serve them in good stead for the rest of their lives.
Consequently they propose to encourage citizens, particular corporate citizens to sponsor a child from one of these institutions to attend the Guyana Karate to train and become full- fledged Karatekas beginning at the white belt level and going all the way to become black belts.
They also plan to have their senior Karatekas work with the children in the orphanage to offer remedial homework classes, life skills coaching, and to allow them to participate in the GKC vacation camps.
Additionally the GKC plans to donate household items, food, toiletries, sheets and bath towels the Joshua House Children Centre during 2018.